I use MSYS2 on my Windows machine and when I installed make, as a dependency pacman installed guile. Listing the files of the guile package revealed that it has info pages (guile.info.gz) installed at ...

I keep getting this same error when trying to install various packages:
make: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
It's ...

I'm trying to install a Linux From Scratch system. I know LFS doesn't come with a package manager. I want to use pacman as my package manager. I googled bout it and found some links bt they are old, ...

Given a pacman package (.pkg.tar.xz), is there a tool to convert it to a deb or rpm package?
In other words, I'm looking for an equivalent to alien. So far, I got the impression that such a tool does ...

Hey so the question pretty much says it all, ive installed the irc client quassel and I want to get rid of it now but i dont know how to do so with pacman because i installed it from the source code, ...

I'm trying to see if I can learn something more about disk usage on my setup - with respect to installed packages(all). So I'm looking at the Arch Pacman Tips about maintenance. First I try :
expac ...

Every time I attempt to update my arch system using sudo pacman -Syu it fails because it failed to retrieve some files. The culprit is my ISP. It doesn't give me a reliable connection to the mirror of ...

If I try to create a package from the AUR makepkg seems to freeze after installing the dependencies. It just stops after installing the last dependency and freezes with 65% CPU-Usage.
Any Idea what ...

I am following this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia#Installing
The command pacman -S nvidia fails with error: target not found: nvidia, indeed, even packman -Ss nvidia to search for it ...

I'm installing Arch Linux, following the instructions at the Beginners' Guide, and got up to running pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel.
It finishes with the following error:
resolving dependencies...
...

I have recently installed Arch Linux and found that I am eating away at a lot of memory relatively quickly. For whatever reason I have already used 17GB in just about 2 weeks. I do not have a great ...

I am trying to script the installation of optional "dependencies" depending on what other packages are installed in an Arch Linux system. I can use pacman -Q to tell me if a package has been installed ...

Back before I knew what I was doing, I installed my Arch system with a 10 GB root and an 85 GB /home partition. Now my 10 GB root (where my pacman installs to) is full and I'm unable to get gparted ...

It sounds simple enough but this has got me pulling my hair out.
I am running Arch Linux on an ARM chipset (Raspberry Pi specifically) that I used to be using as a print server. It was running CUPS ...

I use a modified vim in Arch Linux, so I blocked gvim and vim-runtime from upgrading:
In /etc/pacman.conf I have:
IgnorePkg = gvim , vim-runtime, vim, ...
But when I do pacman -Syu, it still checks ...

I have arch installed on my hd, but I can't establish a WPA2-encrypted network connection because wpa_supplicant is not installed. On my arch live-usb there is wpa_supplicant and there I can establish ...

I've got an existing Arch Linux installation. After booting from the installation media, is there some way to install software either from the installation media or using the network I've set up using ...

pacman refuses to upgrade my Arch Linux system because of a conflict between open-vm-tools-modules and the linux kernel package:
$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to ...

I have ArchLinux embedded in userspace on my Samsung Series 3 Chromebook. The version of GCC I have installed via pacman is 4.7.2. I'd like a newer version, and the package database here shows that ...

I have an unofficial repository called haskell-core. I want to blacklist every haskell package in extra and use the packages from haskell-core instead. I don't want to use haskell packages from extra ...